Carne seca is a dried and reconstituted beef (think beef jerky, rehydrated) used in a lot of recipes – especially soft tacos (and you have to have homemade tortillas and green chile sauce).

Fry bread is a more recent traditional Navajo food and a lot of people eat it for breakfast with a little honey (much yummier than bagels, IMO). But it can be served at all meals either sweet or savory. To have gone to AZ and not eaten fry bread is a tragedy….

Pinon nuts (pine nuts) are native to the high plains of Arizona around Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon. Sweet treats made with them are ubiquitous – pinon cakes made with pine nuts and honey and coarse corn meal are to DIE for.

Hold up! The Grand Canyon is filled with pine nuts?!? This place just infinitely more magical.